PORT TOWNSEND — Legal scholar Robert L. Tsai will discuss his book, “Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation,” at 6 p.m. today.
Tsai, a professor of law at American University and formerly of Port Townsend, will speak and sign copies of his book at the Peninsula College Port Townsend Learning Center in Building 202 at Fort Worden. Admission is free.
Joining him in the talk will be Ariel Speser, assistant attorney general, who works out of the Port Angeles Regional Services Division serving Jefferson and Clallam counties, and serves in Jefferson and Clallam courts on a weekly basis.
In his book, Tsai looks at historically successful tools for achieving equality, such as the concept of fair play or free speech, and offers readers several workable solutions. He argues that we need to develop a complete arsenal of arguments to reduce inequality in everyday life.
Prior to serving as an AAG, Speser worked for eight years as a civil legal aid lawyer for the Northwest Justice Project, a nonprofit statewide legal aid firm representing low-income and vulnerable individuals and families.
Tsai also is the author of “America’s Forgotten Constitutions” and his essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Politico, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Review and Slate.
He now lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
For more information and to RSVP, contact Anna Forrestal at aforrestal@pencol.edu.
